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Titel Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet G minor op. 25 (Arr. Arnold Schönberg)
Spieldauer 00:03:10
Urheber/innen Brahms, Johannes [Komponist/in] [GND]
Schönberg, Arnold [Bearbeiter/in] [GND]
Mitwirkende Klemperer, Otto [Dirigent] [GND ]
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra [Produzent]
Datum 1938.05.07 [Aufnahmedatum]
Ort Wien, Zentralfriedhof, Ehrengrab Johannes Brahms [Ortsbezug]
Los Angeles [Aufnahmeort]
Schlagworte Musik ; E-Musik ; Gesellschaft ; Besetzung - Orchester ; Besetzung - Quartett ; Instrumente - Klavier ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
20. Jahrhundert - 30er Jahre
Typ audio
Format SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Sprache Englisch
Link Brahm's Piano Quartet in G minor on the website of the Arnold Schönberg Center
Signatur Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00210_b01_k02
Medienart Mp3-Audiodatei
Johannes Brahms' grave, Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Bernd Gross, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Johannes Brahms' grave, Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Bernd Gross, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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As a self-taught musician, Arnold Schönberg was “exclusively Brahmsian” in his youth before his mentor and friend Alexander Zemlinsky motivated him to equally admire Wagner. In 1937 he wrote an orchestral arrangement of Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor. Otto Klemperer conducted the premiere on May 7, 1938 in Los Angeles.

In a letter to music critic Alfred V. Frankenstein dated March 18, 1939 Schönberg writes about his “intentions”:

“1. To remain strictly in the style of Brahms and not to go farther then he himself would have gone if he lived today.

2. To watch carefully all these laws which Brahms obeyed and not to violate [any of those] which are only known to musicians educated in his environment.

How I did it:

I am for almost 50 years very thoroughly acquainted with Brahms’ style and his principles. I have analysed many of his works for myself and with my pupils. I have played as violist and cellist this work and many others numerous times: I therefore knew how it should sound. I had only to transpose this sound to the orchestra and this is in fact what I did.

Of course, there were heavy problems. Brahms likes very low basses, of which the orchestra possesses only a small number of instruments. He likes a full accompaniment with broken chord figures, often in different rhythms. And most of these figures can not easily be changed, because generally they have a structural meaning in his style. I think I resolved these problems.” (Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)

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